Society for Photographing Relics of Old London

REFERENCE CODE: LONDON COLLECTION MANUSCRIPTS/45

ADMINISTRATIVE/BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY: The Society for Photographing Relics of Old London originated in the wish of a few friends to preserve a record of the 'Oxford Arms' Inn, threatened with destruction in 1875, and actually demolished a few years later. The project, mentioned in The Times, was so well received, that it enabled the Society to follow up the first issue, and later on to double the annual number of photographs. By the twelfth years issue, published in April 1886, it was considered the project had reached its completion.

SCOPE AND CONTENT: Set of large, card-backed photographs, taken between 1875 and 1886, and published by the Society for Photographing Relics of Old London (April 1886), including: